Laura and Carlos have built their experience through years of service and training; today, in an emergency, they barely have a minute or a minute and
Laura and Carlos have built their experience through years of service and training; today, in an emergency, they barely have a minute or a minute and a half to be ready to leave
The Secretary of Security and Peace recognizes the crucial work that firemen do during any emergency for the well-being of Guanajuato
Guanajuato/Gto News
Ten, fifteen, twenty years can pass between certifications, physical training, tool practice, rescue operations, and constant learning. When an emergency strikes, that time is reduced to minutes: putting on a 12-kilo uniform, climbing into the unit, and saving a life.
That is the time that Laura Elena Reyes Antimo and Carlos Alberto Camarena de la Torre, rescue firefighters from the State Coordination of Civil Protection of the Secretary of Security and Peace, have to turn their years of preparation into decisions that can make a difference.
Elena Reyes is a rescuer and a homemaker. She considers herself privileged to be able to work as a firefighter and use those skills to care for her two children.
“I got certified as a firefighter, but it’s constant group and individual preparation; you start with the basics of handling tools, the chemistry of fire, rescue maneuvers and how we should take care of each other, you feel like a very complete person, and you take all that home with you too,” said Elena.
During their training process they learned the basics, but also the essentials and even things that are not learned in the classroom and that only experience in the field has given them.
“All emergencies are difficult. The first fire I responded to, I thought I could die there because it feels so hot. I saw how my colleagues were working and that’s what helped me. I had so much confidence in them because I knew that if something happened to me, they would get me out of there,” the firefighter and rescuer shares, about teamwork.
Carlos also remembers one of his first experiences, which marked him and taught him a lesson that, as the years go by, remains firm in his way of performing his work.
“A fireworks factory exploded, and it was very shocking because people died. I had to pull myself together, and I realized it was dangerous and that I had to be much more careful. That call impacted me, and it made me want to be very cautious in my actions and very observant,” says Carlos, a graphic design graduate, but a firefighter by inheritance from his father.
A fundamental principle for firefighters is that no one enters an emergency alone. Every move depends on the partner beside them, on the trust built over years. This is how the 36 firefighters of the State Civil Protection Coordination work, responding to any emergency within Puerto Interior and reinforcing the municipal fire departments.
“There have been times when I question what I’m doing here. Sometimes people are running in the danger zone; you feel like going back, but you reason it out: I’m here to solve it, to serve the people,” Carlos repeats, and he repeats it like a ritual every shift.
The Secretary of Security and Peace recognizes the women and men of the State Coordination of Civil Protection who have made preparation and service a way of life.
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